Everybody’s Kung Fu Fighting!
(I’m seeing a great fight scene between Sayid and this guy)
Hiroyuki Sanada joins ABC’s ‘Lost’
Leading Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, a former protégé of Sonny Chiba, has been cast to play an undisclosed character in the sixth and final season of ABC’s LOST TV series.
American audiences last saw Sanada as Mr. Musha in SPEED RACER, fight Jackie Chan in RUSH HOUR 3 and train Tom Cruise in THE LAST SAMURAI.
He is best known to martial arts film fans as a member of Chiba’s Japan Action Club and for his fighting roles in a series of period chambara films ranging from playing a teenage ninja in THE SHOGUN’S SAMURAI (1978) to a middle-aged swordsman in Yoji Yamada’s THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI (2002).
August 25th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Sanada is a great actor and martial artist. I’ve got a 2nd degree black belt in Kendo and also trained in fencing – ya, I love all things dealing with sword combat. Well, this training can also transfer to pool sticks and other things in a bar fight…lol. But ya, it’s cool he’s going to be on Lost.